Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation / Edition 1

by N. Tadiar, A. Davis

Overview

Beyond the Frame explores the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance. The goal of the collection is to rethink the category of visual theory through women of color. It also explores the political and social ramifications of visual imagery for women of color, and the political consciousness that can emerge alongside a critical understanding of the impact of visual imagery. The book begins with a general exploration of what it means to develop a women of color criticism (rather than an analysis of women of color), and goes on to look specifically at topics such as 90s fashion advertisements, the politics of cosmetic surgery, and female fans of East LA rock bands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403965332
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/17/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar are Professors in the History of Consciousness Program, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Angela Y. Davis& Neferti X. M. Tadiar * Popular Culture and Advertising * The East Side Revue, 40 Hits by East Los Angeles Most Popular Groups!: The Boys in the Band and the Girls Who Were Their Fans - Keta Miranda * The Commoditization of Hybridity in 90s U.S. Fashion Advertising: Who is (cK) One - Laura J. Kuo * Her Suit Fits: Albita's Performative Postures - Darshan Elena Campos * Beyond Pocahontas - Joanne Marie Barker * 'Come Up To the KOOL Taste': Race and the Semiotics of Advertising - Sarah Jain * Self/Identity, Memory/History * Unpacking Popo's Boxes: The Formation of a Genealogical Identity in Hawai´i - Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua * The Politics of Self and Identity in the Photographic Self-Portrait - Kianga Ford * July 1997, A Woman Sitting On A Camel, Smiling - Jarita C. Holbrook * Memory of My Absent Grandpa - Naono Akiko * Dissecting the Real * Who's Zooming Who(M)? Resituating Filmic Representations and the Decolonization of Critical Viewing - A. L. Anderson * 'The Face Value of Dreams': Gender, Race, and Class and the Politics of Cosmetic Surgery - Vicky Bañales * A Fraction of National Belonging: Anatomy of One 'Hybrid Hawaiian' in 1930s Racial Classificatory Schema - J. Kehaulani Kauanui * Resistance Images * Bearing Bandaleras: Transfigurative Liberation and the Iconography of la Nueva Chicana - Maylei Blackwell * '¿Soy Punkera Y Que?': Nation, Gender, and Chicana Feminist Images - Michelle Habell-Pallan * Aztec Princess Still At Large - Catríona Rueda Esquibel * Embodied at the Shrine of Cultural Disjuncture - Luz Calvo

Editorial Reviews

"Very rich in new and perceptive information...there is an urgent need for this book in the various fields it touches." - Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University

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